Nov 03, 2015 - Sale 2396

Sale 2396 - Lot 370

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds.

Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1634. 260x216 mm; 10 1/4x8 1/2 inches, narrow margins. Biörklund's third state (of 3); Usticke's first state (i) (of 5), with the landscape and bridge still distinct and with little wear under the angel's left wing; White and Boon's third state (of 3). Partial coat-of-arms watermark. A very good, well-inked impression with strong contrasts and with traces of burr on the animals lower right and the group of putti upper left, with the little white house on the bridge still manifest. Bartsch 44; Biörklund 34-J; Hollstein (White and Boon) 44.